Words left unspoken
I thought I'd be nice and put this up early then I planned I'm pretty nervous at the moment because I'm getting my GCSE results on Thursday. I'm at my sisters tomorrow and after I get my results so I figured better post now. Next update will depend on what I get, if I get rubbish I will get depressed and sulk for a while, lol. Thank you all for reviewing! I'm glad you like it Okay I have a little request here because I am rubbish at spelling and need help! I have always mixed up lose and loose and what you use then for. Could someone help me! I'll give you a small part in the story if you do!
Okay I'll shut up now and let you read.
New dress sphere
I remember the first day I arrived at Home. The day I realised there were more Al Bhed in Spira that didn't have to live in constant fear of others as I had. Everyone was staring at me, looking at me as if I were a fiend, not an Al Bhed, not one of them. It's then I began to lose that hope that had kept me surviving the past six years and nine months of my life. I knew I needed that hope to stay sane, to stay alive, yet seeing them look at me as every other Spiran had made me question whether it was worth the hassle. I stood there staring at each one, determined not to be weak or ignored. On the outside I seemed unaffected but on the inside…it was the worst feeling I've ever had. One I've only felt once since that day and never want to again.
But then my gaze rested upon you and you smiled at me without hesitation. You saved my life for the first time then, because I wouldn't have bothered carrying on if it wasn't for that smile. You made me laugh for the first time since I was a baby. You made me remember what life was meant to be lived for. Gee, how soppy is that! Good job no one is a mind reader or I'd be in a heap of trouble.
How do you do that Rikku? How do you save people like that? You've done it with others too, you effect them with your happiness and optimism. Everyone loves you because you provide them with what they need. You give them hope like Yuna does. The Al Bhed people look at what you've achieved, you've proved the rest of Spira us Al Bhed are good people. You did that Rikku, no one else. You saved our entire race.
I always felt special because you saved me first. I thought that would be enough to keep use together no matter what. But then that awful feeling came back to me and I knew it would last longer if you found out the truth of my past. I had to leave you so that I would still have your optimism effecting me. Maybe if I'd told you, you might have understood, but I couldn't risk it. I needed you to remain civil with me. If I told you that wouldn't have happened. At least this way you forgave me for being a jackass. This way I see everyone being allowed to love you except me.
Rikku cried out as the arm whacked her roughly. Luckily though the machina didn't seem to be as strong as the first time and she healed herself with a potion. Gippal fired at the machina looking slightly worried and very tired. Rikku smiled at him for encouragement before changing to Dark Knight.
This was the third time the machina had restarted itself, each time it was weaker but so were they. It was too tiring, too much energy wasted to begin with. Gippal hadn't looked very alert even before it had restarted the first time! There had to be something else they could do.
"We have to do something! It just keeps restarting!" She whined while preparing to cast darkness. "Owie!" She yelled as she let the attack loose. Maybe this wasn't so fun after all.
"We have to disable the main core! That's where the restart trigger will be! We have to break through the armour more!" He said tossing a break armour grenade. Rikku followed suit with the one she'd been given earlier. The machina collapsed for a moment then but as they came closer to disable it before it restarted again it knocked them back with an arm. Rikku groaned and felt a potion wash over her.
"I have an idea!" Gippal yelled suddenly. "Time to use this new baby!" He yelled while beginning to change…
"What's happening over there?" Lance yelled while holding the microphone in his ear. All the men in charge of the teams were equipped with a small microphone in their ear so they could report in. Gippal wasn't responding though.
"This is Team One reporting. We arrived at Besaid and found the machina on the beach pursuing someone in a special dress sphere. We couldn't land due to the problems the machina was having on the ship. Gippal requested we drop him off first to go after who we think was Rikku before going to land further away. We did so and landed the airship just outside the village on a slope. Team Two and Three went to go help Gippal but they came back reporting a barrier stopping them. We've been trying to contact Gippal but the barrier seems to be effecting communications." Lance took his time to let out a long amount of curses, something he'd picked up from Gippal. That boy was a bad influence on him. "What shall we do?"
"Send the clean up crew to try and disable the barrier. Keep Team Three near the village to protect the people. Team Two should go to the barrier in case we can break through. Are there any injured?"
"Three sir, but they have received treatment and are resting."
"Okay fair enough, keep me updated." Lance said switching to standby. What had Gippal gotten himself into now?
He felt his usual clothes disappear under protective layers of metal as it covered him from ankle to neck. His hands remained gloved but his arms were also covered with metal. It was extremely heavy. He felt a sharp sting in his right…well where his eye used to be, as a impressive piece of machina connected with his nerves and allowed him to see an ultra sonic red with his right side. He grinned as it scanned the machina looking for the best place to penetrate the armour. Gippal heard Rikku gasp slightly beside him. He wasn't sure it was because of the dress sphere or the blood seeping down from the machina eye. Hey, it was painful but at least he had an advantage now.
His weapons were a little tricky to work out. The main one was what looked like a large gun but instead of firing bullets it fired wire lines that had hooks on the end. Especially designed to penetrate armour and reveal the goodness underneath! The other weapon with it…that was a little secret.
"Hayd!" (Neat!) Rikku yelled with a giggle, Gippal grinned at her.
"You haven't seen nothing yet Cid's girl." He told her as he located the weak spot and taking careful aim with the help of the machina eye.
"Gippal watch out!" Rikku screamed as the machina struck Gippal in the stomach. The armour reduced the damage and Gippal grinned with a new found amount of cockiness. He aimed again and fired, watching as the two wires penetrate into the weakened areas. Electricity then ran down the wires and into the weak spots. The machina would have screamed in pain if it were a fiend. The attack was similar to Rikku's darkness in the effect to the attackie. Gippal gasped slightly as he sunk to his knees.
Just when he was about to close his eye she felt an X-potion hit him. He sighed and climbed to his feet aware that the wires were still connected to the machina but the electricity had stopped. The machina seemed pretty bashed up but already it was beginning to move again.
"Does it ever give up?" Rikku moaned. Gippal grinned at her grabbing hold of his weapon tightly and pulling as hard as he could. It wasn't what he was meant to do, the weapon was designed to release the wires when he eased his grip on the trigger, but this would be much more effective.
Rikku had obviously quickly picked up what he was trying to do and grabbed hold of the weapon too, pulling with all her might. Gippal took a moment to grin at her before pulling as hard as he could. This was what he used to picture when they were kids, them fighting together, side by side. He gripped hold of it even tighter and pulled trying so hard he was gritting his teeth. Rikku was the same next to him. Then he began to feel it, the metal give way…
"It's starting up again!" Rikuk said pulling with all her might, Gippal grinned.
"That might be a good thing." She stared at him as if he was insane, which he was sure he was by this point. He nodded his head towards the machina rather than trying to explain. As it began moving about the armour gave way more, not able to take the strain. Rikku laughed as half the metal detached itself.
"When this is over remind me to…"
"Kiss me?" He asked hopefully receiving an eye rolling.
"You wish." She muttered before they were both thrown to the ground when the armour tore loose from its owner. He grabbed Rikku by instinct and made himself fall on his back to take the shock of the impact. He laid there dazed with Rikku on top of him realising this was the first time he'd laid down for two days. He tried to ignore the effect Rikku's closeness was having on him. He groaned as pain shot through him, glad that his armour had absorbed most of the impact.
"You okay?" Rikku asked rolling off him and gazing into his eye. He nodded and then suddenly remembered where he was. From the look on Rikku's face she must have just realised too. She threw a potion over him before climbing to her feet and dragging him up. The machina was in a sorry state, the front part now showing it's inside wires and vulnerability. Yet it was still going. Gippal fixed his machina eye to scan and saw what the needed to do.
"The main core is in the centre of the wiring." He told Rikku quickly. "If I can get to it and disable it the restart programme will be overridden.
"But how the hell are we suppose to get near it without being squished by those arms?" Gippal grinned at her and held up what looked to be some type of control.
"That's where this baby comes in."
Wakka had checked up on Yuna, Tidua and Paine before checking on Lulu and Vidina again. He felt so helpless, he was suppose to protect this village but here he was pacing about while the Al Bhed risked their lives. One of them said Rikku was down there along with the leader of the Machine Faction. Alone. He now stood at the barrier, it's blue colour not allowing him to see what was happening beyond. All he could hear was the occasional sound of machina attacking and a few battle cries.
The Al Bhed were doing everything they could think of to break the barrier, but nothing was working. Wakka was pretty sure nothing would work until that machina had finally been defeated. They had been fighting the thing for so long, but at least he knew they were still alive as he heard odd comments and battle speeches escape them. They seemed to be doing okay.
Then the scream echoed towards them causing the workers to pause a moment and then begin again with new determination. That was a young girl's scream.
"Rikku!" Wakka yelled slamming his fists against the barrier.
"What's that do?" Rikku asked puzzled as she powered up a darkness attack. Gippal just grinned at her and pointed the device at the machina. He tinkered about with its controls for a while as the machina continued to move towards them. "Ow ow ow." Rikku complained as she used her darkness attack. Gippal still continued to just play about with his toy. "Do something!" She yelled glancing nervously at the approaching menace.
"Patience Cid's girl." He replied calmly not looking up. Rikku growled but it soon died as the machina began raising an arm to strike…and then it froze in place. "Come on, we don't have long." Gippal said grabbing her arm and moving towards the machina's middle.
"How did you..?"
"Someone is controlling this thing, you can tell by the sequence of the restarting method. If it was just an automatic programme then it wouldn't take a few minutes to start up again." He explained while tearing past wires to find the core, Rikku helped him numbly. "Whoever is using this first builds up some restored power before restarting it again. It's why its still strong after every time we defeat it. I was able to override their control on it, but it won't be long before they get it back up and running. We have to get the core out before that happens." Rikku stopped a moment and looked at Gippal with a smile. He noticed her staring and turned his gaze to her.
"What?" He asked nervously turning back to his work, the core was in view and he quickly took out some equipment to unscrew it loose and carefully remove it. It was going to be slow work and they didn't have time. Rikku grabbed a screw and helped.
"I just never realised how good you'd gotten with machina." She said with a grin gazing at him again. He gave her a rare honest smile at that and held her gaze. The next thing she was aware of she something hitting her hard and knocking her through the air. She screamed out in pain before hitting the ground and knowing only the darkness.
"Something's wrong." Yuna said suddenly opening her eyes. Everyone that was awake in the tent looked over at her. "Where's Rikku?"
"Yuna you should rest." Tidua told her softly.
"Where is she?"
"She's on the beach with the machina." Nooj said slightly less coldly than usual. "Her and Gippal have been fighting it for nearly an hour now. No one else can help because of a barrier over the place."
"Something's happened to her, we have to help her!" She said scrambling to her feet. "We have to get to the beach now!"
"There's nothing we can do." Nooj said harshly.
"I want to be there." Yuna said quietly with tears in her eyes. "I can feel it's about to end, one way or another."
The man grinned as he finally broke through the little runts code. Did he really think he could outsmart him? Just for that he aimed at the girl and smiled when she landed away from the machina with a weak heartbeat. He didn't have to worry about the princess anymore.
"Now it's your turn boy. After so long I can finally see your corpse being picked at by the insects."
"Rikku!" Gippal yelled looking over at her still form so far away. He was tempted to go to her but knew the arms would get him first. He swallowed hard trying to push his thoughts down. If she died he didn't know what he'd do… "Whoa!" He yelled as the arm swung at him. He wiped useless tears from his face and concentrated on unscrewing. The arm was getting ready to hit him again. "Cred!" He yelled dropping the screwdriver and grabbing hold of the core trying to yank it out with brute strength. Only one corner was still held and with as he concentrated his rage to strength. It came lose in his hands sending an electric shock through his body. He screamed in pain but it didn't stop him grabbing a small chip from the core and placing it in his pocket before the arm hit him…
He was flying, then he knew only pain again. His armour that was meant to protect him was making it hard for him to breath. He slowly changed to his normal outfit and stare in the distance at the machina. It was in pieces, it wasn't going to get up again.
He heard people coming closer but he couldn't lift his head to look. He just crawled beside Rikku and clung to her arm. Everything hurt, but his heart hurt the worst.
"E's cunno Rikku" (I'm sorry Rikku) He muttered before he gave into the pain and closed his eye. After that he couldn't feel anything anymore.